Crazies (Import)

Horror movie director George A. Romero's third feature, the prescient 1973 sci-fi eco-horror The Crazies, is almost a dry run for his 1978 masterpiece, Dawn Of The Dead. A military plane carrying a secret bio-chemical warfare agent crashes near Evans City, Pennsylvania, releasing a deadly virus into the local water supply. Highly contagious, the virus quickly begins to infect the town's residents, producing homicidal insanity in its victims.

As government scientists work to find an antidote, the town is forcibly quarantined by the US military. Clad in protective suits, troops of soldiers move in intending to control and cover up the situation, and to prevent the further spread of the virus. Produced in the dark shadow of both the Vietnam conflict and the Watergate scandal, and amid deep social and political unrest in America, Romero's allegorical and effectively suspenseful film is a dark mirror of its time.